True Immortal of the Netherworld

Golden Buddha Temple, Tathagata Hall.

In the middle of the splendid hall, there is a golden statue of Tathagata sitting on the Buddha, which is as big as six feet.

The sitting Buddha is shining with golden light, has kind eyebrows and kind eyes, but is silent.

The open space in front of the Tathagata sitting Buddha is filled with a circle of gilt Buddha lamps.

The Buddha lamp is shaped like a small Tathagata palm, with clusters of golden flames dancing on the fingertips.

In the middle area surrounded by Buddhist lanterns, a piece of red sandalwood collapsed, and lying on his back was a young monk wearing a white cassock.

At this time, the young monk's eyes were closed tightly, and there was a closed golden line between his eyebrows.

The young monk's cassock was dust-free, his face was like white jade, but he was silent.

In the corner of the hall, there were two young acolytes muttering quietly.

"It's been a month since the Holy Son of Gold and Jade came back, and he still hasn't moved. But we are asked to stay here day and night. It's really sleepy." One of the acolytes said and yawned.

"Now he is no longer the Holy Son of Gold and Jade, don't you know? A few days ago, the Tathagata Hall Presbyterian Council just issued an edict. He hasn't woken up for so long, won't he die here? You said, in Tathagata Hall If there is a dead person on display, is that disrespectful to the Tathagata Buddha?" Another acolyte glanced at the little golden monk in the middle of the field and rolled his eyes.

"I said, it would be better if he died early, so that we don't have to suffer here."

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Ahem.

Two slight coughs, not loud, but instantly filled the entire Tathagata Hall.

The sitting Buddha could not hear it, nor could the little jade-faced monk lying on the rosewood couch hear it. But to the ears of the two acolytes, it was like thunder and thunder.

"Stop talking nonsense, you two, get out." The voice came from the wooden couch in the middle of the Buddha lamp.

There was a person there, an old monk to be precise.

The old monk's figure is like a dead tree. He sits there in meditation with his eyes closed, like a dead tree. In the mottled shadows, it's easy to miss his presence.

The old monk opened his eyes, and in his deep-set eye sockets were a pair of embarrassing eyes like bright lights.

When the two acolytes heard the reprimand, they felt dizzy. They held their heads in their hands and ran outside, apologizing at the same time.

"Uncle Jiu Ku Master, have mercy on your life! Uncle Jiu Ku Master, have mercy on you!"

"I don't dare to talk nonsense anymore."

The two acolytes ran out of the hall, and the hall became quiet again.

The sitting Buddha was silent, and so was the young monk on the wooden couch.

"No matter how bright the Buddha lamp in the Tathagata Hall is, it cannot illuminate the human heart."

The old monk Jiuku said something Zen in a calm tone, and then looked at the golden and jade young monk lying on the wooden couch, with a look of pity in his eyes.

"Little monk, I'm going to perform meritorious deeds."

After saying that, the old monk pinched the magic formula with both hands, and emerald green threads of light swam on his fingertips. A layer of emerald green light emitted from the surface of his originally skinny and dark yellow body.

"Buddha's Dharma - Spring comes out of dead trees!"

The old monk seemed to be energized. He held out a ball of green crystals in his hands, raised them gently, and landed on the young monk like a firefly.

Every green light spot is a piece of vitality. Under the stimulation of the old monk's technique, it all sneaks into the young monk's body.

After a full hour, the old monk took back the technique, and he was already sweating.

"Little monk, do you know? You have been unconscious since I found you under the Demon Blood Peak. Starting on the road, I will use the dead wood to revive every three days to help you.

I wonder how long you will sleep for? But I can hear your heartbeat. I, an old drunkard, am still waiting for you to wake up and drink with me? "

The old monk looked down at the young monk, his eyes flashing with moisture, recalling his past with the young monk in his mind.

"I still remember that you first came to Tathagata Hall to study scriptures. You were only three years old at that time.

You point your little finger to the horizontal plaque on the main hall of Tathagata Hall and ask me, Uncle Jiu Ku, great uncle of Jiu Ku, why is this place called Tathagata Hall?

I said, because the Tathagata is sitting here, it is the Tathagata Hall.

But you say that the sitting Buddha is not the Tathagata, it is just a pile of golden lumps that cannot speak.

Let me ask you, what is Tathagata? Where is Tathagata?

You answer, the Tathagata is always tangible, and the Tathagata is always invisible. Those who save others are all Tathagatas, and those who save themselves are all mortals.

I was amazed by your answer

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Old monk, I have spent more than a thousand years searching for the true meaning of Tathagata.

Tathagata, Tathagata comes. It is everywhere and ethereal. It is the human heart and the heart of compassion. "

The old monk muttered to himself and stretched out his hands like dry branches to lightly adjust the young monk's cassock.

"When you are seven years old, you can recite most of the Buddhist scriptures stored in Tathagata Hall and become an undefeated debater.

In the entire Tathagata Hall, you are willing to talk to me. You respectfully call me Jiu Ku Shi’s uncle. In my heart, you will always be my child. "

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The old monk said a lot of words, but the young monk closed his eyes and remained silent.

Perhaps because he was tired, the old monk closed his eyes and sat cross-legged in silence.

There were a few more dark spots on his originally thin face, making him look like dead wood.

Ten days later, it was night.

The Buddha fire in the main hall of Tathagata Hall is bright and shining brilliantly.

There were only two people in the main hall, the old monk and the young monk.

As before, the old monk first nourished the young monk's body by using the art of rejuvenating dead wood.

Then he told the little monk a story about his childhood in Tathagata Hall.

Halfway through the old monk's story, his voice stopped suddenly.

Because the old monk saw a line of tears rolling down from the corners of the young monk's eyes, crystal clear and flawless.

"Gold and jade, gold and jade, gold and jade." The old monk called softly.

The little monk opened his eyes and sat up. He threw himself into the old monk's arms and cried like a child.

"My child, you finally woke up, and my hard work these days is not in vain." The old monk smiled.

"Uncle Jiu Ku Master, you...are...my Tathagata." The young monk burst into tears.

"It'll be fine if you wake up. It'll be fine if you wake up." The old monk wiped away the fatigue of many days, stroked his two long gray eyebrows with his hand, and then patted the young monk's bald head with his hand.

"Uncle Jiu Ku Master, I have heard everything that has happened in Tathagata Hall these days. It's just that the other four of my five senses have just reawakened. I don't care if the elders of Tathagata Hall will remove me from the title of Golden Jade Saint Son. . But Master Jiuku, you have been wronged for me." The young monk said guiltily.

The old monk told the young monk exactly what happened.

One month after the Golden Jade Monk set out from the Golden Buddha Temple, the Golden Buddha Temple received news that the Demon Clan of the Western Regions secretly sent a group of demon soldiers, led by the Three Demon Lords of the Western Regions, heading towards the Demonic Blood Peak.

The Elders Council of Tathagata Hall held a meeting and decided to send reinforcements to Demon Blood Peak.

After the old monk Jiuku got the news, he suddenly felt that the little monk Jinyu was in a bad situation. Without waiting for the outcome of the meeting of the Tathagata Hall Elders' Council, he took the lead to go to the Demonic Blood Peak alone.

Under the Demonic Blood Peak, the old monk Jiu Ku saw a strange scene.

The little golden jade monk seemed motionless as if he was sitting with his eyes closed, with purple demonic energy lingering on his body. Demonic energy was constantly pouring out from the Demonic Blood Peak, and then penetrated into his body.

At this time, hundreds of demon soldiers from the Western Regions, led by two demon generals, discovered the golden monk and surrounded him.

And outside the body of the golden jade monk, there is a world-shaking magic spear guarding him, and no one can get close to it.

As soon as the magic spear came out, the mountains collapsed and the earth cracked, and the magic fire slaughtered the sky.

One of the two leading demon generals was wiped out in ashes on the spot, and the remaining demon general fled in a hurry with half of the remaining soldiers.

Monk Jiu Ku was worried about the safety of the young monk Jin Yu, so he did not chase the escaped demon soldiers and generals.

He tried to get close to the golden and jade young monk, but was blocked by the magic gun and could not get closer than ten feet away from the golden and jade young monk.

"The magic gun is just protecting the young monk and has no intention of harming him. I'd better not act rashly. It seems that the young monk has entered samadhi under the influence of demonic energy. Could it be that the power in his body has awakened?" The old monk frowned and said worriedly.

The old monk was watching from a distance.

Three days later, the magic spear outside the Golden Jade Monk turned into a ray of purple light and sank into his Heavenly Spirit Cap, disappearing without a trace.

The golden jade monk fell into coma and fell to the ground. There were some purple magic lines on his exposed face and arms.

The old monk stretched out three fingers and put them on the wrist of the golden monk.

"A massive amount of demonic energy poured into the young monk's body, forming a powerful and irreversible chaos in his Zifu space. This is also the reason why his body became demonic."

The old monk carried the young monk on his back all the way back to Jin

Buddhist temple, and constantly used the technique of springing dead wood to help him regulate his body during the journey.

The two returned to the Golden Buddha Temple, and the Tathagata Hall Elders Council found that the body of the golden jade monk was in a demonic state, and immediately convened an emergency council of elders.

"The little golden jade monk was born with three eyes. When he was born, there was a rare phenomenon of the golden rainbow of Buddhism and the purple energy of demons intertwining in the sky."

"It's the Demon Buddha's line."

"At that time, I advocated killing him directly to prevent him from growing up to become a demon and harming Jinfo Township."

"On the contrary, the main war faction, usually led by the old monk Jiu Ku, took him back to the Tathagata Hall for reform on the grounds that 'the child is innocent, and the Buddha came like this'. There was no other way, so the Tathagata Hall had to publicize it to the outside world. He was reincarnated as the Buddha and given the title of Golden Jade Saint Son.”

"After twenty years of being influenced by the Tathagata Sutra and taught by the Tathagata Hall, I thought that the golden and jade monk had completely lost his demonic nature and achieved the body of the supreme Buddha. Unexpectedly, when he returned from the Demonic Blood Peak, his body showed demonic transformation."

"If it continues to be broken, there will be endless troubles. I suggest that it be driven into the Golden Light Tower and sealed completely."

"Even if we don't seal it, the current golden jade monk won't be able to wake up."

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The Tathagata Hall Elders Council made a resolution and decided to ban the Golden Jade Monk.

This was strongly opposed by Monk Jiu Ku.

Monk Jiu Ku used his reputation as a guarantee and promised to pull the golden monk back from the evil path.

After that, the golden monk was placed in the Tathagata Hall, but in reality he was under surveillance. Monk Jiu Ku casts a spell alone to help the golden jade monk lose his demonic nature.

After more than a month of hard work, Monk Jiu Ku used the purest Buddhism secret technique of Dead Trees to Rejuvenate Spring to temporarily suppress the demonic nature in the Golden Jade Monk's body, causing the demonic patterns outside his body to disappear and return to his original appearance.

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Although the Golden Jade Monk recovered his body, the Tathagata Hall Elders Council distrusted him.

Maybe the Golden Buddha Temple is not confident in the Golden Buddha it believes in, or maybe the Golden Buddha Temple is too afraid of the demons from the Western Regions.

They are afraid that with the re-emergence of the Western Region, the Golden Jade Monk may be contaminated with demonic nature, transform into a demon again, and attack the Golden Buddha Township.

When the golden jade monk used the method of inner vision to check the space of his Zifu.

He was surprised to find that a world-shaking magic gun had recognized him as its master and was hovering in the Zifu space.

The surface of the magic gun was engraved with two demonic characters - Heavenly Demon.

"Am I really a demon?" The young monk also had doubts about his own life experience.

The Golden Jade Monk learned that the hundreds of stick monks who went to Demon Blood Peak to slay demons with him last time had only eighty-eight people return to the Golden Buddha Temple due to the breakout and separation. The remaining twelve people were captured by the demons from the Western Regions.

During the battle at Demonic Blood Peak, the three Demon Lords of the Demon Clan of the Western Regions were seriously injured and were carried back to the Western Regions by reinforcements sent by the Demon Lord of the Western Regions.

Most of the demon reinforcements sent were destroyed by the demon spears guarding the Golden Jade Monk.

It can be said that the demon clan of the Western Region suffered a big loss.

In order to boost morale, but also to regain the face of the Western Region Demon Clan. The demon clan in the Western Region publicly announced that the twelve captured monks from the Golden Buddha Temple would be sacrificed by fire in the demon clan cemetery.

When the young monk Jinyu heard the news, he felt even more indebted.

The little golden jade monk begged the old monk: "Uncle Jiu Ku, I want to go to the Western Regions in person. I want to rescue the twelve stick monks and find out the truth about my life experience."

Seeing that the young monk Jinyu had made up his mind, Monk Jiuku could only sigh and said, "Let it go as you go. Take care along the way."

The young golden jade monk knelt down and kowtowed three times. With tears in his eyes, he said, "Thank you, Master Jiuku, for helping me. No matter what my life experience is, I am still your child. I am a little kid who likes to drink with you." drunkard."

The young monk Jinyu left the Golden Buddha Temple secretly. It can also be said that the monk Jiuku let him go and went to the Western Regions alone.

When the Tathagata Hall Presbyterian Church learned that the young monk Jinyu had left without authorization.

In order to clear up the relationship, the golden jade monk was immediately defined as having fallen into the devil's path and was put on the list of wanted evil gods in the Northern Territory.

But Monk Jiuku let the young monk Jinyu go without authorization and was punished voluntarily. He was sentenced by the Tathagata Presbyterian Council to face the wall and think about his faults.

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On this day, the golden sun was shining brightly, and Xu Yang returned alone from the Luming Grassland in the Southern Territory and arrived near the Tiangui Sect in the Northern Territory.